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Decided to disable email in code and try again. Not too optimistic but we'll see. Signups will fail, logins might still work if everything is cached.
Root cause of the issues: Trying to connect to an SMTP service to send OTP's that began to block me after "suspicious activity".
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Pro tip: have 2-3 providers and make sure you can quickly switch between them
And that's why many indie projects fail before they start because people think they have to do something like this and build for scale before launch day :P
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Do you have any suggestions? Your game seemed very popular. Anything you wished you had focused more on?
Set your expectations accordingly. Coding is the fun part, but it's less than 5% of actually launching and making a successful product. If you don't think you want to spend most of your time not coding, don't try to make it a business! Marketing is more important than making something. You will get a small boost from things like this (I was always too embarrassed to post here!), but it's an endless pit of time and mo…
Different than industrial CDNs but my new go-to for small-to-mid and indie sites.
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Thank you! I think, like you said, a good strategy will be to keep it fun and hobby-like as long as possible. I can definitely see the business-side of it sucking all my time and energy. I think doing some educational materials will be a worthwhile way to market and gain interest. Community building with something like a Discord server will also help. Competing as a business with something like Jagex is 100x harder t…
To be clear, it's not Jagex you're competing with. It's the 20+ other indie MMO solo developers who are trying to do the same thing as you, including but not limited to: RetroMMO, New Eden, Valorbound, Carth, Eterspire, Omuri, Shadefell, Cookie Dragon, Cinis, Cinderstone, Legends of Etherell, Legendarium, Mirage Realms, Aether Story, Ethyrial, and so on. There's more that come and go every month. Unfortunately, the #…
using js for an mmo, a performance critical application, sounds like a big difficulty.
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Root cause of the issues: Trying to connect to an SMTP service to send OTP's that began to block me after "suspicious activity".
Just switched to an actual transactional email service so it might actually work for a bit. (oops, still need to get verified to send more than 100...)
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And that's why many indie projects fail before they start because people think they have to do something like this and build for scale before launch day :P
Half of all projects fail because they start with making a load balancer. The other half of projects fail because they become successful and don't have one.
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no, it should be the State's pickaxe, that the central committee might entrust to you so that you work your part in the 5-year plan
groan There's no helping you people. Communism is a society without a state, classes, or money. There's no such thing as a "Communist government".
For those of us who missed the party, can we have a video and screenies please please please? :D Also, a very long time ago I remember seeing the early genesis of minecraft emerging on iirc https://forums.tigsource.com/ . The community there is still vibrant, so if not already there then that is a good place to show your game and get solid feedback and encouragement :)
I remember AI Dungeon and character.ai taking off on HN. TIGS is still one of the best game communities around, even if the people have changed. Devlog section has some amazing things too, like Return of the Obra Dinn and Disco Elysium.